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Atlantic Flight

by: William Nigh

Publication date: 1937
Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Topics: Action, Drama, Romance
Publisher: Monogram Pictures
Item Size: 1.5G

In 1937, actual airplane pilot Dick Merrill become famous for being the first pilot to make a commercial transatlantic roundtrip flight.
Momogram Pictures, capitalizing on Merrill's celebrity status, quickly created the fictional film ATLANTIC FLIGHT where Merrill plays himself as a pilot crossing the Atlantic with a medical serum that can save his friend's life.
The film used real footage from Merrill's own stormy Atlantic crossing.